The common vice of democracy is disregard for morality.
Do not turn yourself from an end into a means-one does not justify the other.
Socialism means slavery.
Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority: still more when you superadd the tendency or the certainty of corruption by authority.
History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.
The man who prefers his country before any other duty shows the same spirit as the man who surrenders every right to the state. They both deny that right is superior to authority.